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API tokens are unique identifiers associated with your Scaleway account and consist of an Access Key (--o or -organisation in the Scaleway CLI) and a Secret Key (--t or -token in the Scaleway CLI). The Secret key is required to authenticate against our API and will only be displayed when you create the token. Make sure to take a note of it and to keep it secret.

There are five steps to provision and start a server with additional volume from the API.

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The API endpoint depends on the location where you want to perform an operation. Currently the following endpoints are available:

Retrieving the list of available images

The following request returns the list of available images. In this example we only have one image which is located in the nl-ams-1 zone, named Ubuntu Bionic Beaver and has id 9444d178-2285-4842-ac35-5e86eda8da91.